Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce?

Re:Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce? by ezekg on Friday October 18, 2019 @11:11AM (#21292045)

I spend ~$1.5k/mo on Heroku (~27% of monthly revenue). I'm using 2–4 (auto scaling) Performance-M dynos because I was tired of sharing resources and having spotty response times (as were my customers). Once I moved from Standard-2X to Performance-M, my response times dropped from ~500ms avg w/ random timeouts to <90ms avg w/ no timeouts, but my costs skyrocketed. I want a managed hosting provider that rivals Heroku but doesn't make me feel like I have to pay an arm and a leg to get decent service. I don't want to, nor do I have the time to, move to and manage infra on AWS yet.

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Re:Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce? by Jefro118 on Saturday October 19, 2019 @06:06PM (#21301052)

I just moved from Heroku to Dokku[1] on DigitalOcean w/ my site[2] and it's great. Dokku is basically set up to run in more or less the same way as Heroku except in a container on another platform. There's an one-click install image that you can use to set it up on a DigitalOcean droplet. It took me about 3 hours to move over and set it up, but that's mostly because I screwed up my DNS and nginx configs, otherwise it would have taken 30 minutes. Not sure how it would affect performance compared to Heroku, but I'm fairly sure it would save a lot of money for not too much effort. Perhaps not quite what you're looking for in every way, but you could definitely slash that bill without having to spend loads of time managing the server.

[1] - http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/ [2] - http://sourcesort.com

p.s. just in case you did YC Startup School, you can use the deals to get $10k in infrastructure credits from DigitalOcean until Nov 1

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Re:Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce? by shardinator on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:56AM (#21297534)

I highly recommend scalingo.com - it’s actually a better product (imo) and costs about half as much.

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Re:Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce? by sethammons on Friday October 18, 2019 @11:53AM (#21292421)

why not just run DO droplets at $5/pop?

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Re:Ask HN: What SaaS expenses do you wish you could reduce? by redmaple on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:42PM (#21292833)

> I want a managed hosting provider that rivals Heroku but doesn't make me feel like I have to pay an arm and a leg to get decent service.

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